Key facts
- Type
- Airliner / transport aircraft
- National origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- Douglas Aircraft Company
- Status
- In very limited use
- Primary users
- South African Airways Museum Society United Airlines (historical), American Airlines (historical), Trans World Airlines (historical), Buffalo Airways (historical)
- Number built
- 80 DC-4 and 1,163 C-54/R5D
- Manufactured
- 1942 – August 1947
- Introduction date
- 1942 with United Airlines
- First flight
- 14 February 1942 (production series)
- Variants
- C-54 Skymaster , Canadair North Star
- Developed into
- Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair , Douglas DC-6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- Martinair
- Country of origin
- United States
- Developer
- Douglas
- Manufacturer
- Douglas
- Image
- Pacific Western Airlines DC-4.jpg
- Height
- 8.38
- Length
- 28.6
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- service entry
- 1946-01-00
- wing configuration
- low wing
- Commons category
- Douglas DC-4
- topic's main category
- Category:Douglas DC-4
- Commons gallery
- Douglas DC-4
- maximum operating altitude
- 6800
- first flight
- 1942-02-14
- wingspan
- 35.8
- total produced
- 1244
- maximum capacity
- 86
- different from
- Douglas DC-4E
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Encyclopedic overview
The Douglas DC-4 is an American four-engined (piston), propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Military versions of the plane, the C-54 and R5D, served during World War II, in the Berlin Airlift and into the 1960s. From 1945, many civil airlines operated the DC-4 worldwide.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Douglas DC-4” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.